sudo lspci -v01:05.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d1) Subsystem: Avermedia Technologies Inc Device 1044 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17 Memory at f9fff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: saa7134 Kernel modules: saa7134I think this is a great card with a great picture, I have had it in operation for a little over 2 years now. First year in just a stand alone myth system and last year in a LinuxMCE 710 system and now I just recently upgraded to 810 and it manually installs fine. I have compared the picture side by side with Myth's "PBP" (picture by pictue) feature against a HDHomeRun both in full 1080p and in my opinion it has just as good of a picture and I can't tell the two apart. My comparison test has only been for OTA HD (ATSC 8VSB).

The only thing I had to do was download the firmware and copy it into the /lib/firmware directory and rebooted and it worked.

NOTE: Running the perl download script causes wget to exit with a 404 error. This is caused because aver.com updated their domain to "www.avermedia-usa.com". To fix this you must edit 'get_dvb_firmware' at line 320 after the gzip -d command. Replace 'www.aver.com' with 'avermedia-usa.com' and it should download properly

Both the Kworld and ATI Myth sites are very helpful because the A180 site seems to be a little outdated.

All I get is one set of S-Video and Composite inputs that I think are the PVR350's inputs not the AverMedia A180's input. Based on a quote that I read:

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Although the card includes S-video and composite inputs (including RCA audio jacks), these inputs don't appear to work in Linux, so you can't use the card for analog recording, even from a set-top box, VCR, or other device. However, it does tune analog channels within its frequency range. It is important to note though that the analog tuner of this card does not have a hardware MPEG2 encoder; it is an old fashioned frame grabber based tuner. Therefore, it is highly discouraged for analog use.

Quote was located @ http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/AVerTV_HD_A180I guess based on the quote I would not expect the A/V inputs to show up. These are the two commands listed on the first entry if there is another one you would like me to run just let me know.

I have the Nova-T-500 which is a USB connection through the PCI interface. I couldn't see a specific PCI entry for it, but I suspect it is the VIA USB card (as I don't think I have any other VIA in the system, the mobo chipset is nVidia)

v4l2-ctl didn't work, its looking for a device here, /dev/video which doesn't exist (running 0710) there is a device under /dev/dvb... several directories and devices for 2 "adapters" etc, but using the --device= option just reports:

ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT

I didn't have to compile anything, however I am not using this DVB card right at the moment.

pat@dcerouter:~$ sudo apt-get install ivtv-utils...pat@dcerouter:~$ sudo v4l2-ctl -nFailed to open /dev/video0: No such file or directory

I just ordered the KNC ONE PCI DVB-C card.... i will post results, the moment the card arrives.

And Mandigo, as i haven't tried creating templates before and i got lost in the wiki, i would love to see some wiki/documentation, so that more of us could suuport in little babysteps. How about that idea?Cheers,Pat

...So keep them comming and no one will go ignored just remember the info to post

DViCo FusionHDTV7 Dual Express - The lspci bits were already up on the wiki I created for this card. I ran the v4l2-ctl and added the output but soon realized that the analog inputs were likely from the usb tuner card I have plugged in (I'll post the info for it soon). The driver for this card does not support the analog inputs. http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/DViCO_FusionHDTV7_Dual_Express

This card requires the xc5000 firmware. There are two versions that I have used, depending on which the kernel requests (1.1 or 1.6.114).

Replied as soon as I saw this post...I was away from the forums for a couple days. Keep up the good work.